The regiment's first action was in Egypt during the Battle of Alexandria part of the French Revolutionary Wars.

They were then used in the punitive expedition in the Beni Boo Ali campaign in 1821, against the pirates in Eastern Arabia and the Persian Gulf.

During World War I they were attached to the 17th Indian Division for the Mesopotamia Campaign.

They took part in the action at Fat-ha Gorge on the Little Zab and the Battle of Sharqat, in October 1918.

[1] After World War I the Indian government reformed the army moving from single battalion regiments to multi battalion regiments.